Time to stop stripping binaries?

[Kevin Lo]

Tim Kientzle wrote: 
> Max Laier wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 June 2010 22:33:34 M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >>
> >> Now that disks are big, can we stop stripping binaries by default?
> >>
> >> I've worked up a patch that lets you set WITH_BINARY_SYMBOLS or
> >> WITHOUT_BINARY_SYMBOLS as you see fit.  We should commit it regardless
> >> of the outcome of this discussion (well, defaulting to yes or no
> >> depending on the outcome).
> > 
> > My vote is with symbols in current and stable, without in releases - by 
> > default.  i.e. everything people build at home from an unknown repo state 
> > should have symbols, everything we "ship" can be reproduced if needed.
> 
> I was going to make this suggestion myself, but Max beat me to it.   ;-)
> 
> Definitely -CURRENT should default to building with
> symbols.  I've spent too much time going back to
> re-build specific pieces with symbols in order
> to debug issues in -CURRENT.
> 
> For releases, I think there's a good argument to
> leaving symbols off (CD space is still rather dear).
> 
> For stable, I could go either way.

+1. Agreed with Tim :-) 

> Tim

        Kevin